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Another Abandoned Telestone Payphone

A decrepit old payphone stands miserably outside the Crown Motor Inn, an hourly rates motel on Queens Boulevard in Woodside,…

10 years ago

European Payphone Chase

Anyone who knows me much at all finds themselves afflicted by a strange condition in which they start seeing payphones…

10 years ago

Abandoned Verizon Payphones at 77 Water Street

Phones like this stay in place for years, not even attracting the interest of thieves. An abandoned Verizon payphone (should…

10 years ago

Citybridge Rising: The Missing Links

Citybridge, the consortium of telecom and advertising companies awarded a monopoly franchise to replace New York City's outdoor public pay…

10 years ago

Is Seamless Targeting Payphone Users?

The advertising folks at Seamless, the online food delivery service, appear to be using one of their current ad campaigns…

10 years ago

Big Four Ice Caves: The Payphone Connection

Last week's story about a fatal collapse at the Big Four Ice Caves nearĀ Verlot, Washington, includes an interesting payphone-related footnote…

10 years ago

1987: New York City Payphone Users

This photo of two random New Yorkers carrying on unrelated conversations within spitting distance of each other using New York…

10 years ago

The Sid Tuchman Mystery Solved, 25 Years Later.

Sid Tuchman. For 25 years that name haunted me. Sid was at the center of a moment which is, 2½…

10 years ago

Payphones I Used To Know: a.k.a. Vandalism 101

Some time ago I commenced a project in which I intended to capture and perpetuate the memory of payphones in…

10 years ago

Caller ID, Payphones, and Fictitious 555 Numbers.

I spotted this discussion, which focuses on the question of what shows up on caller ID when one receives a…

10 years ago